Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, i...t is impossible to be warned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourse...lf to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and inte...llectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality.... No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise ...a thirst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America--as fa...r as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can... either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »